William viego wilson



NI TED STATES PATENT OFFIC WILLIAM VIRGO WILSON, OF UBILEE STREET, COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, AND JOSEPH STOREY, OF LANCASTER, COUNTY OF LANCASTER, ENGLAND; SAID STOREY ASSIGNOR TO SAID WILSON.

MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL LEATHER OR LEATHER CLOTH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,726, dated Novgmloe l fi il ggti,

Appliration tiled October-15,1885. Serial K04319753 (Specimena) Patented in England April 7, 1884, No.-6,051; in France J une 25, X 1884, No. 162,965; in Belgium J une 28, 1884, No. 65,624; in Italy September 30, 1884, XVIII, 17,146, XXXIV', 162, and in Canada j April 20, 1885, No. 21,473.

To whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM VIRGO WIL- sQN, of J ubilee street, in the county of Middlesex, England, color manufacturer, and JOSEPH 5 STOREY, of Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster, England, manufacturing chemist, subjects of the Queen of Great Britain, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Artificial Leather or Leather r0 Cloth, (for which Letters Patent from the following countries have been grauted,lviz: Great Britain, No. 6,051, dated April 7, 188i; France, No. 162,96 dated- June 25, 1884,; Belgium, No. 65, 624, dated June 28,1884;Italy, 17,146, XVIII and 162, XXXIV, dated September 30, 1884; Canada, No. 21,473, dated April 20, 1885;) and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

" Our invention has for its object the production ofanew article of man ufacture resembling artificial leather or leather cloth, and being g5 a woven fabric or web coated with a compound six hundred parts; nitro cellulose, two hundred parts; castor -or linseed oil, three vhundred parts; to which may be added two hundred parts of chinaclay or other pigment.

The nitrocellulose is dissolved in or combined with the acetate of amyl, and to this compound, in the form ofastifi paste or dough, the oil and afterward the pigment are added 4o-aud the whole thoroughlyincorporated in a straining or mastieating machine or passed ric'is coated with parkesine or Xylonite.

through grinding-rolls, to which heat may be applied with advantage, whereby a homogeneous massis produced, which is then spread upon the fabric or webby means of a machine similar to those commonly used for spreading india-rubber and gutta-percha'upon fabrics.

We are aware of the patent to Le'wthwaite, dated May 17, 1870, No. 103, 209, in'whieh a fab- This compound is, however,*of altogether difierent physical and chemical characteristics both in respect to the solid or pigmentary ingredients and also thesolvents. In our product the coat ing is composed of mononitro-cellulose and vegetable oil and coloring-matter as pigments and acetate of amyl as the solvent, and great advantages are obtained both as regards the quality of the finished'artiele and the speed ot'its production, which is due to the nature of its composition.

\Ve claim As a new articleof manufacture, a fabric coated with the residuum from a solution. of mononitro cellulose in acetate of amyl in ad- 6 mixturewith oilaud tfpigmentary matter, as described.

Dated this 9th day of May, 1885.

\VILLIAM VIRG'O \VILSON. JOSEPH STOREY. Witnesses to the signature of William Virgo Wilson: I

W. T. ATKIN, East London Color Works, Jubilee Street, Mercantile Clerk.

E. G. VVEIGHTMAN, Bramoote Road, Rotherhithe New Road, S.

E, Mercantile Clerk. 7

Witnesses tothe signature of Joseph Storey:

R0131. HALE, J AMEs W. MARSHALL,

Both Solicitors, Lancaster. 

